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Christy Turlington in The USSR 23 Mar 2013 | 08:02 am
An American model best known for representing Calvin Klein from 1987 to 2007 visited Soviet Russia in 1990. Related posts: The Very First Miss USSR Life of a Child in the USSR Moscow in Soviet Rus...
Instagrams from Soviet Russia 5 Feb 2013 | 07:45 am
In early twenties the New Economic Policy (NEP) was an economic policy proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who called it state capitalism. NEP allowed some private ventures (small businesses mostly) to reopen...
Soviet Ukraine in Early Eighties 17 Jan 2013 | 03:52 pm
Amazing photographs taken by famous Magnum photographer Ian Berry in 1981–82 in Odessa, Soviet Ukraine. Please, click the thumbnails to see full-size images. Related posts: Picturing the Soviet Repu...
Occupied Soviet Russia 6 Jan 2013 | 05:05 am
Franz Grasser (1911–1944) was a young German photographer. Please find below a set of photographs he took in Belgorodskaya region, 1943. At the beginning of World War II he was working as a staff phot...
Soviet Hadron Collider 4 Dec 2012 | 05:26 am
More than twenty kilometers of tunnels, lots of outputs and chambers for equipment and shafts are hidden underground near the city of Protvino. A huge circular ramified underground system was built fo...
Mother Odessa by Ian Berry 26 Nov 2012 | 05:18 am
There was a Russian folklore legend depicting Odessa as a mother of all Russian cities (Rostov-on-Don was supposedly a father). The song has been forgotten ever since, however the saying lingered. Ple...
Henri Cartier-Bresson in Soviet Russia 19 Nov 2012 | 04:01 am
Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson Related posts: Moscow in Soviet Russia,1956 Enthusiastic Photography from Soviet Russia, 1950s — 1960s. Soviet Brands: The Scent Of Communism. Part 1 of 2
Soviet Book for Adults 23 Oct 2012 | 06:51 am
Yes. That is how it was called. In 1957 there were books for adults in the Soviet Union, too. The book presented here is not a brochure but precisely a book: a hard cover, about 100 pages, coloured il...
Neva River Plane Landing 7 Aug 2012 | 10:10 pm
In September 1963, rumors about a unique incident circulated through Leningrad. One day, a silver passenger airliner flew a dozen circles over the city, then descended and landed right on the waters o...
Moscow in Soviet Russia,1956 31 Jul 2012 | 06:11 pm
We would like to invite you to check out a new type of RealUSSR posts: a gallery. Please click images below to see larger photographs taken by young French scientist, journalist and a historian Jacque...
